As many of our readers know, for the past 10 issues of the paper we’ve been posting editorials on the front page, demanding that Trump Must Go! But sometimes we need to say a little more than the 400 words or so, particularly at a time when the nation is suffering a crisis of leadership.
We have a so-called commander in chief, a clueless clown of confusion who doesn’t know his elbow from his you know what. There is no reason in the world it should have taken him hours to respond to the terrible tragedy in Syria.
On any other insignificant circumstance his tweets would be coming in rapid fire, but somehow he’s at a loss for words when innocent people, including a number of children, are gassed by their own government, if we dare call it that.
If Trump has no quick response to the Syrian catastrophe, there’s no reason to believe he has anything substantive to say about North Korea or China as he prepares to meet with that country’s president.
Let’s face it gang, we are a country with a leader who has no idea what to do, how to do it and when. He’s surrounded himself with a confederate of dunces, who, in too many instances, are just as brainless and immoral as he is.
The checks and balances we often depend on to neutralize a portion of the government gone whacko have only recently demonstrated they have any spunk and resolve to take on the emperor. We hope the planned filibuster to temporarily halt the seating of Judge Gorsuch is a sign of stepping up to the plate, though this gambit is sure to be followed by the Republicans’ “nuclear option.”
At one point the American people seemed aroused and ready to take to the streets, ready to challenge Trump’s authority, but that has gradually fizzled out. Only sporadically, depending on the issue, are the rallies and protests loud and sustainable enough to command media attention.
Nor, as we reflect on Dr. King’s famous speech at Riverside Church a year before his assassination, do we have anyone possessing the charisma, the national recognition, to inspire a people caught in the grip of a mad man and his cohorts.
As several activists have proclaimed during other times of distress and a rudderless government, we are the leaders we’ve been looking for. The longer we wait, the longer we allow Trump to issue executive orders without outrage, the deeper we will sink into a quagmire of intolerance.
Trump is not about the American people, only about his immediate family and his businesses. His concerns are selfishly motivated, and many of us knew that from the git-go.
In our editorials, even to the point of ad nauseam, we will continue to hammer away at the Trump regime, insisting that he must go, and we need your voice to make that demand resounding and relentless.